Folding hat and clothes rack



(No Model.)

G. P. BARNES. FOLDING HAT AND CLOTHES RACK. No. 444,933. Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

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' NITED STATES GILBERT FOSTER BARNES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FOLDlNG HAT AND CLOTHES RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,933, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed May 19,1890. Serial No. 352,403. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GILBERT FOSTER BARNEs,a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Hat and Clothes Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates more especially to that type of hat and clothes racks that are adapted to fold together compactly when not in use.

The object of the invention is to afford an improved construction of portable hat and clothes racks the parts of which are adapted to fold together in avery compact manner when not in use and occupy but little space when packed away in a satchel, &c., for future use. I attain such object by the construc tion and arrangements of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portable hat and clothes rack in its unfolded condition embodying my present invention; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same in its unfolded condition and Fig. 3 a similar view of the same in its folded condition.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

As represented in the drawings, my improved rack consists of a base-piece 1 of suitable form and material, to the top of which is secured in a pivotal manner the swiveled hook 2, by which it is suspended, and an out wardly-swinging front plate 3, that carries the hat-holding spring-clip 4, the one pivot-pin serving as a pivot for the plate and the yoke portion of the suspension-hook 2. The base piece or plate 1 near its lower end carries an ordinary clothes hook or prong 5 of any usual form or construction. The spring-clip 4 is formed of a single piece of spring metal bent so as to form anattaching base portion 6 and a pendent spring-finger 7, underneath which the rim of a hat or other article is inserted to be held and supported by the spring or elasticity of the finger 7. By the arrangement of the spring-clip 4 upon the outwardly-swinging plate 3, as illustrated in the drawings, the hat or other article held by the spriirlg-clip will rest outside any article that may be suspended on the lower hook 5 regardless of the bulk of such article and without liability of crushing or crumpling the hat or the rim thereof.

It is within the province of my invention to form the different parts of the hat and clothes rack from wire rods bent into the required form in the usual manner of constructing wire novelties.

Having thus fully described my said invention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A folding hat and clothes rack com prising, in combination, a base-plate 1 and an outer plate 3, hinged together at top, the one carrying a clothes-hook 5 and the other a hatholding spring-clip 4, essentially as described.

2. A folding hat and clothes rack comprising, in combination, a base-plate 1, an outer swinging plate 3, and a swiveled suspensionhook 2, all hinged together by a common pivot, the base-plate 1 being provided with a clothes-hook 5, and the swinging plate 3 with a hat-holding spring-clip 4, essentially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

G. FOSTER BARNES. Witnesses:

ROBERT BURNS, GEO. H. ARTHUR. 

